22nd August 2024
Tool makers
Both humans and creatures have developed and do use tools to help them make better use of their environment. Bottlenose dolphins carry marine sponges in their beaks to stir ocean-bottom sand and so uncover prey; sea otters and chimpanzees uses stones as hammers to break open shells etc; octopuses use coconut shells – carrying them from place to place -to wear as armour; crows use sticks to winkle insects out of logs.
That humans also use tools, does not per se mark them out as different to other beings in the natural environment – it is just the scale with which humans do this.
https://www.livescience.com/9761-10-animals-tools.html
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